Its just an egg...right?

daveinoz · Sep 5, 2012

Hi All

A newbie and I have been playing around with the light tent I made and some how fell into doing an egg series:

Dinosaur Egg

Oriental egg (I stopped after this photo - when you start dressing up eggs you know its time to take a break!)

Interrogated Egg

Campfire Eggs

Blue Egg

Its obviously all manipulated but I don't have Photoshop I just use Picasa which is free and has some fun tools. All things considered I think they have come out OK and I am even thinking about a series.

My actual question is regarding the last one- the blue egg. Personally I REALLY like the coolness of this shot but I am wondering whether erasing the shadow under the forks is going to help enhance the photo? I'd like to get this one enlarged and framed...

I have tried this in Picasa (not shown here) and gotten close with their touch up tool but it's noticeable and now wondering if I need to invest the time and money in photoshop to be able to manipulate photos more easily? I have fiddled in Photoshop before and feels like there is a LOT there that I may never use.

Thoughts on the photos and Photoshop appreciated!

P.S. Please note no eggs were harmed during this photo shoot...well maybe one...

Dagwood56 · Sep 6, 2012

An interesting, refreshing and fun idea. Nicely done.

Derrel · Sep 6, 2012

A most egg-zellent set of photos! Well-done! You must be a pretty hard-boiled photographer to go so all-out on this. I know I myself would really have to scramble to get this many photos actually processed. I always have wayyyyy to much on my plate. Again, eggzellent work!

Big Mike · Sep 6, 2012

Have a look at Gimp. GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
It's a free image manipulation software.

Bynx · Sep 6, 2012

Derrel you are just full of yolks today.

Derrel · Sep 6, 2012

Bynx said:
Derrel you are just full of yolks today.

Awww, Bynx, you just crack me up sometimes!

And back to the Original Poster's comment: "(I stopped after this photo - when you start dressing up eggs you know its time to take a break!)"

Uh....yeah...that has ALWAYS been my motto!!!

Designer · Sep 6, 2012

daveinoz said:
My actual question is regarding the last one- the blue egg. Personally I REALLY like the coolness of this shot but I am wondering whether erasing the shadow under the forks is going to help enhance the photo?

I understand your desire to erase the shadow, but the way it is now is distracting. I think I would just try to reshoot this with more light from the bottom. Are the forks resting on an opaque surface or a transparent surface? If they were on glass you could direct some light from underneath.

I like all these, BTW. Do some more!